1781 in poetry

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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George Crabbe writes to Edmund Burke asking for financial assistance. The outcome is the publication of Crabbe's poem The Library.

William Cowper, Anti-Thelyphthora, published anonymously (see also Martin Madan's Thelyphthora 1780)

George Crabbe, The Library, published anonymously

Anne Francis, A Poetical Translation of the Song of Solomon

William Hayley, The Triumphs of Temper

George Keate, Poetical Works

Samuel Jackson Pratt, Sympathy; or, A Sketch of the Social Passion, published anonymously

Anna Seward, Monody on Major André, on John André, hanged as a spy in the American Revolution

Philip Freneau, The British Prison-Ship: A Poem

William Hayley, "The Triumphs of Temper: A Poem"

Francis Hopkinson, The Temple of Minerva

Anna Seward, Monody on Major Andre

Santa Rita Durão, Caramuru, Portuguese poem written in Brazil

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 26 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim (died 1831), German poet and novelist

March 17 – Ebenezer Elliott (died 1849), English poet, known as the Corn Law rhymer

September 12 – John Grieve (died 1836), Scottish poet

November 6 – Lucy Aikin (died 1864), English writer of histories, poetry and novels and translator

December 25? – Sydney, Lady Morgan, née Owenson (died 1859), Irish novelist and poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born 1729), German poet

March 17 – Johannes Ewald (born 1743), Danish national dramatist and poet

May 8 – Richard Jago (born 1715), English clergyman and poet

June 25 – Samuel Gotthold Lange (born 1711), German poet

November 4 – Johann Nikolaus Götz (born 1721), German poet

Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (born 1699), Indian, Urdu-language poet, shot

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